{"id":420590,"date":"2026-01-18T05:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T05:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/420590\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T05:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T05:30:12","slug":"pavel-silyagin-accepts-ibf-168-pound-title-fight-with-osleys-iglesias-talks-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/420590\/","title":{"rendered":"Pavel Silyagin Accepts IBF 168-Pound Title Fight With Osleys Iglesias; Talks Imminent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Osleys Iglesias<\/a> has been waiting for weeks to learn who he would fight for the vacant IBF super middleweight title.
After the IBF attempted to make fights for him with higher-ranked, higher-profile opponents, Pavel Silyagin<\/a> accepted the opportunity. The Ring has learned Eye of The Tiger, which represents Iglesias, and RCC Promotions, which handles Silyagin, will begin negotiations soon for their 12-round, 168-pound championship match.
Cuba\u2019s Iglesias (14-0, 13 KOs) is the IBF\u2019s No. 1 contender for a title Terence Crawford<\/a> vacated when the former undisputed champ retired last month. Russia\u2019s Silyagin (16-0-1, 7 KOs) is ranked seventh.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Tornado wants to take the world by a storm,\u201d Eye of The Tiger president Camille Estephan told The Ring. \u201cIglesias is ready to take over.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iglesias, rated No. 2 by The Ring at 168 pounds<\/a>, has left a trail of destruction behind him. He won four fights inside nine rounds during a breakout 2024, including first-round stoppages of world title challenger Marcelo Coceres and Evgeny Shvedenko, a second-round technical knockout of Sena Agbeko and a fifth-round TKO of previously unbeaten Petro Ivanov.
The left-handed, 28-year-old Iglesias recorded his most impressive victory September 4, when he stopped then-unbeaten Russian Vladimir Shishkin in the eighth round of their IBF elimination match<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Silyagin, who is not ranked in The Ring\u2019s top 10, has fought exclusively in Russia since he made his pro debut in February 2020. <\/p>\n

The 32-year-old Silyagin owns a win over experienced former title challenger Isaac Chilemba, the only opponent to take Iglesias the distance. Iglesias beat the South African contender by unanimous decision in May 2022.<\/p>\n

The lone blemish on Silyagin\u2019s record is a 10-round split draw with Russia\u2019s Shvedenko (17-2-1, 8 KOs) in September 2023. Silyagin most recently dominated hard-hitting Argentinean Pablo Corzo (24-1, 21 KOs) on his way to a wide win on all three scorecards July 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Osleys Iglesias has been waiting for weeks to learn who he would fight for the vacant IBF super…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,2989,2983,2831,2988,2981,2984,2985,2986,2987,2982,1920,2993,2992,1913,2976,2977,2990,2978,2975,2994,2772,85,2991,2974,2980,2979],"class_list":["post-420590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-community","tag-boxing-fights","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-interviews","tag-boxing-magazine","tag-boxing-photos","tag-boxing-rankings","tag-boxing-results","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-boxing-news","tag-disqualification","tag-draw","tag-fight","tag-fighter","tag-fighter-news","tag-knockout","tag-latest-boxing-matches","tag-ring","tag-ring-magazine","tag-split-decision","tag-sports","tag-technical-knockout","tag-the-ring","tag-top-fighters","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}